TOKYO/SAN FRANCISCO – As key decision-makers for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics met on March 29th JST, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) delivered over 110,000 signatures to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo 2020 Olympic authorities, raising concerns about the use of rainforest wood and human rights violations associated with the construction of Olympic facilities, and…
The Ontario Woodlot Association is hosting their annual conference and annual general meeting on April 12-13, 2018 in Shakespeare, Ontario. The theme of this must-attend event for woodlot owners is “Forest Management in an Agricultural Landscape”. More details
At this year’s Forest NB AGM, Gregor MacAskill of Gardner Pinfold presented an outlook on forestry titled, Economic Impacts of the New Brunswick Forest Sector. “Over the years, the forest industry has experienced many challenges,” says Mike Legere, executive director of Forest NB. “As we all work to build a sustainable sector, we wanted to…
Statement by Monika Patel, Director of Programs and Communications, FSC Canada: You may have seen the news this week that Greenpeace International has decided to change its role in the Forest Stewardship Council. Following its restructuring three years ago to decentralize the organization, Greenpeace International has decided to decentralize its membership in the Forest Stewardship…
CBC News -Unifor has selected Resolute Forest Products as the target company in a new round of “pattern bargaining,” which the union hopes will set a precedent for all of eastern Canada’s forestry industry, a Unifor spokesperson told the CBC. Pattern bargaining involves the union working out a deal on major, industry-wide issues such as…
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — After a career spent battling wildland fires across the West, U.S. Forest Service interim Chief Vicki Christiansen must now confront another sort of crisis: the harassment and bullying of women that’s persisted in the agency’s male-dominated culture despite numerous efforts at reform. Christiansen’s ascension to the top of the 35,000-employee agency…
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Greenpeace is withdrawing from the main global group for certifying sustainable wood, saying the organization it helped found more than two decades ago is failing to protect natural forests from exploitation. Greenpeace said the Forest Stewardship Council inconsistently implements its standards and “fell short” of its goals of conserving forests and…
A University of Alberta graduate student may have found a way to speed up the long, expensive process of reclaiming land torn up for oilsands extraction. Prem Pokharel’s master’s thesis showed that loading jack pine and trembling aspen seedlings with extra nitrogen and other nutrients before they were put in the ground at two former…
This is an excerpt from the newly released market report Wood Resource Quarterly. To read the full 56-page quarterly report, please visit www.woodprices. Global Lumber Trade Trade of softwood lumber reached an all-time-high in 2017 as demand for wood was strong in most key markets around the world. An estimated 126 million m3 of softwood…
TORONTO — The David Suzuki Foundation began recruiting volunteers for year two of its Butterflyway Project, a national effort to bring butterflies and bees to six Canadian cities: Montreal, Scarborough, Markham, Toronto, North Vancouver and Richmond. Keen residents in each city will be selected and trained as Butterfly Rangers in April. The Foundation will then…